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Barbour Lewis

Barbour Lewis (5 January 1818 – 15 July 1893) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-TN 9) from 4 March 1873 to 3 March 1875, succeeding Emerson Etheridge and preceding William Parker Caldwell.

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Barbour Lewis was born in Alburgh, Vermont on 5 January 1818, and he taught school in Mobile, Alabama and served as a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War before serving as president of commissioners of Shelby County, Tennessee from 1867 to 1869. He served in the US House of Representatives from 1873 to 1875 and practiced law in Memphis before moving to St. Louis, Missouri in 1878. He then moved to Whitman County, Washington to engage in stock raising, and he died in Colfax in 1893.

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